Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Sun Don't Shine
Wrong
South of Heaven
The Trap
Small Town Murder Songs
Li'l Quinquin
Blind Shaft
Slovenian Girl
Just Another Love Story
Jerichow
Spotlight on Neo-noir
Shadows and light. Horizontal blinds and cigarette smoke. Private dicks and dames in the driver seat. Given how recognizable aspects of classic film noir became, they've naturally lent to reference, parody and experimentation.
Noir influenced, post-noir, neo-noir? Call it what you will. Take the familiar as a starting point, translate the setting and play with conventions: there's always more juice to squeeze out of this pulp.
Selected Films
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Li'l Quinquin
Bruno Dumont proves as eccentric and engaging a director of comedy as he is of enigmatic art house drama with LI'L QUINQUIN, a four-part miniseries with the strangest genre mix this side of TWIN PEAKS. There is a tale of adolescent boredom and mischievous antics over a summer vacation in rural...Watch Movie
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Trans-Europ-Express
TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS is a self-referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet. On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director and his production team hash-out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean...Watch Movie
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A Man, a Woman and a Killer
This 1975 debut feature from Rick Schmidt and his then-roommate Wayne Wang purports to tell a simple story but the telling is far from straightforward. In a 2009 interview, Schmidt said that the method behind A MAN, A WOMAN AND A KILLER "is mostly improv and experimental with...Watch Movie
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Sun Don't Shine
Written and directed by actress/filmmaker Amy Seimetz , SUN DON'T SHINE follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audley) on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida. From the outset, the purpose of their...Watch Movie
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Jerichow
In a small desolate town in northeastern Germany, a handsome ex-soldier, a Turkish businessman and his beautiful, restless wife find themselves in a desperate love triangle in this suspenseful reworking of the James M. Cain's novel THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE from acclaimed director Christian...Watch Movie
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Small Town Murder Songs
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake (the victim of a brutal and violent crime), Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare), is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by...Watch Movie
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Exterior Night
Using extensive rear projection to remarkable effect (actors, in color, against black and white backgrounds and all photographed in high definition), Mark Rappaport evocatively plays with the themes of noir while contemporizing the stakes involved. In EXTERIOR NIGHT, there is no past. There is no...Watch Movie
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The Last Time I Saw Macao
A wonderfully mysterious, shape-shifting feature from celebrated filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO is a detective tale that blends film noir, documentary footage and personal travelogue to intoxicating effect. Following a...Watch Movie
